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Decet

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

It is proper.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

I. It is becoming; it is proper. Decet tameu principem servare leges quibas ipse solutns est: yet it is becoming for the prince to observe the laws from which he himself is released.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

/. It is fit, Decles tantum, I. action against a juror the amount of the